Once upon a time, lived a old man. wrong Once upon a time, lived an old man. correct
d Wrong Subject Pronoun
A subject pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb. Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for languages with a
nominative –accusative alignment pattern. In this case, the student makes error in
the use of subject pronoun. The next day, her wake up ... wrong
Next day, she wake up ... correct
e Wrong Object Pronoun
Using objective pronoun seems to be problematic for the student. the error occur when the student make error in the use of subject pronoun instead of object
pronoun. Many people helped she to made fire and sounds of chicken. wrong
Many people helped her to make fire and sounds of chicken. correct
f
Wrong Possessive Pronoun
The student uses the pronoun improperly. It is because heshe has lack of information. For example:
They name is Onion and Garlic. wrong Their name was Onion and Garlic. correct
3. Discourse
In linguistics, discourse refers to a unit of language longer than a single sentence. Discourse Errors beyond the sentence level, for example, inappropriate
refusal and incorrect topic. a.
Generic Structure In this point, student makes error in generic structure such as give incomplete
information in orientation, heshe does not appear the place where the story
begins. For example:
Once upon a time, there life the litle girl the name Snow White. Snow White life with her aunt and her uncle because her parents was dead.
student does not appear the place where the story begins
b. Reference
Personal reference is two linguitics elements are related in what they refer to. e.g. Eko lives near the park. He often goes there. In this case, the student makes
error in referring subject of personal reference. Sulastri gave neakle to Kirana, Kirana so funny.wrong
Sulastri gave neakle to Kirana and she was so funny.correct
c. Wrong Selection Conjunction
In this point the student uses wrong conjunction when heshe makes a
sentence. For example: Malin go to city after in city he became a success people in the city.wrong
Malin went to the city then he became a success person in the city. crrect 2.
Frequency Each Type of Overgeneralization Error
In this part, the researcher counts the frequency of error in order to get the percentage of each type of errors. Then, after counting the data, the researcher
gets 541 data errors make by students. moreover, it is divided into three categories types of error. They are lexical errors, syntactical errors, and discourse
errors. 140 data errors or 25,88 belong to lexical errors, 348 data errors or 64,33 belong to syntactical errors, and 53 data errors or 9,80 belong to
discourse errors. those errors are converted into diagram below.
Figure 1. Percentage of Error Types From the figure above, then the researcher divided the kinds of errors to be 24
errors it can be seen in the table below.
